{"id":2459,"date":"2014-09-12T19:10:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T00:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2014-09-12T19:10:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T00:10:34","slug":"updike-referenced-in-another-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/09\/12\/updike-referenced-in-another-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike referenced in another review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2014\/09\/Screen-Shot-2014-09-12-at-7.09.42-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2460\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2014\/09\/Screen-Shot-2014-09-12-at-7.09.42-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-09-12 at 7.09.42 PM\" width=\"196\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a>In her review of Daphne Merkin&#8217;s\u00a0<strong><em>The Fame Lunches<\/em><\/strong>, &#8220;45 wide-ranging essays that straddle the high\/low cultural fault line with aplomb,&#8221; NPR&#8217;s Helen McAlpin writes,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;A Tip of the Hat,&#8217; Merkin&#8217;s judicious 2009 tribute to John Updike shortly after his death, exemplifies her literary chops. She highlights his remarkable range and attention to detail, his &#8216;honed, even finicky words,&#8217; but also explains how, after 1990, &#8216;His vaunted cosmopolitanism began to feel dated.&#8217; She adds, with a dapper flourish: &#8216;He began to seem like a man who always wore a hat to work.&#8217; Bingo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/09\/04\/341879669\/lip-gloss-handbags-and-margaret-drabble-in-the-fame-lunches?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=books\">&#8220;Lip Gloss, Handbags And Margaret Drabble in &#8216;The Fame Lunches'&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her review of Daphne Merkin&#8217;s\u00a0The Fame Lunches, &#8220;45 wide-ranging essays that straddle the high\/low cultural fault line with aplomb,&#8221; NPR&#8217;s Helen McAlpin writes, &#8220;&#8216;A Tip of the Hat,&#8217; Merkin&#8217;s judicious 2009 tribute to John Updike shortly after his death, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/09\/12\/updike-referenced-in-another-review\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2461,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}